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Two Realities Of Leadership That I Wish Weren’t True

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Last week I attended a conference for church leaders, pastors, and church planters.  I went looking to be refreshed and encouraged.  I wanted to grow as a leader.  I was hoping to get some new tools to lead and minister better.  I expected to leave the conference energized and excited to get back and get to work...applying the things that I had learned. Those things didn't happen.  But, something else did. I'm not sure if it was the goal of the conference or not, but there were two themes that permeated every speaker's talk.  Two things that they continued to...

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5 Reasons Change Is Hard

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  As a leader, one of the hardest things to do is to lead people through the process of change.  But, the reality is that change is happening around us all the time.  And if we don't change, we'll be left behind.  Change is a function of growth...things/organizations/people cannot grow unless they change.  The paradigm that exists with all change as it relates to people is that the person must decide to change before they will. A leaders job is to inspire and influence the people they lead to create an environment where it is easy to change.  As with...

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5 Hacks To Increase Your Team’s Consistency

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A few weeks ago, I wrote an article called 5 Ways To Know If Your Team Is Inconsistent.  If you haven't read it, would you click on the link and check it out? Now that you've evaluated the team that you lead and you've discovered that they're not as consistent as you'd like them to be...now what?  How do I help them become more consistent? Well, I'm glad you asked!  Here are five ways to help increase consistency: Over communicate.  When leading a team, I'm not sure that it's possible to communicate too much.  I'm sure that it is, but...

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